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Nike Inc. (NKE): Today's Featured Consumer Non-Durables Laggard

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Nike (
NKE) pushed the Consumer Non-Durables industry lower today making it today's featured Consumer Non-Durables laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.1%. By the end of trading, Nike fell $0.70 (-1.1%) to $65.81 on light volume. Throughout the day, 2,144,362 shares of Nike exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3,676,900 shares. The stock ranged in price between $65.69-$66.75 after having opened the day at $66.61 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $66.51. Other companies within the Consumer Non-Durables industry that declined today were:
Zuoan Fashion (
ZA), down 7.6%,
American Apparel (
APP), down 6.5%,
Northern Technologies International (
NTIC), down 4.9% and
Inter Parfums (
IPAR), down 4.1%.

NIKE, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, marketing, and sale of athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessories, as well as in the provision of services to men, women, and kids worldwide. Nike has a market cap of $47.2 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. Shares are up 28.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate Nike a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 12 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates
Nike as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, solid stock price performance and growth in earnings per share. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.